cover artists
Musicians playing others' songs
Cover artists are musicians who perform or record songs originally made famous by other artists.
The term carries no negative connotation—covering songs is a longstanding tradition in popular music: The band started out as cover artists playing Beatles songs in clubs.
A cover artist may also be someone who creates cover art for books, albums, or comics, though this sense is less common.
- renditionPerformed version of work
- acoustic versionsNon-electric musical performances
- imitationCopy of the original
- tribute bandsActs performing another's repertoire
- interpretationsExplanations of meaning
paying tribute · mashups · band · soundalikes · note for note · remixes · session musicians · mimicry · performance · adaptations · repertoire · creativity · tune · album artwork · jam · singer · vocal range · karaoke
- fan creatorsfanfic writers, cosplayers, prop makers
- substitutessubstitute, subs, replacement, substitutes, stand-in
- visual creatorsgraphic designers, illustrators, animators, book illustrators, editorial cartoonists
- comic book roleswriters, illustrators, pencillers, inkers, colorists
- influencersinfluencer, influencers, content creator, PewDiePie, Instagram influencers
cover artistssinger-songwriters
Musicians composing their own material
originators · songwriters · composers · auteurs · creators
cover, artist, covers, covered, covering, uncover, uncovered, discover, discovered